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International graduates of career colleges should have opportunity to work in Canada

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

5 August 2012
The government of Canada recently announced its intention to introduce stricter rules for international students seeking to study in Canada… The proposed changes are intended to ensure that foreign students who obtain study permits enter Canada for the purpose of study. Currently, there is no monitoring of international students once they arrive in Canada… Governments will create lists of educational institutions that meet established standards and are eligible to host international students.

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A university degree’s value is incontestable

Saturday, July 21st, 2012

Jul. 20 2012
In 2009… those with a bachelor’s degree had an unemployment rate of 5.2 per cent, about 2.5 points below the national rate. Those with graduate degrees were doing even better, at 4.6 per cent. By comparison, those with only a high-school degree had a jobless rate of 9.1 per cent, and those with only “some” high school faced an unemployment rate of 15.9 per cent… The income gap between those with university credentials and those without starts slowly in the first few years after graduation, but after a decade, the gap is wide and stays there.

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Ontario universities promise funding guide amid Carleton donor backlash

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

Jul. 14 2012
Ontario’s universities are trying to assemble a toolkit to help their leaders navigate the delicate, sometimes controversial funding deals they broker with wealthy private donors… The absence of clear rules is apparent in a 2010 donor agreement whereby oil magnate Clayton Riddell pledged $15-million to Carleton to start a new political management program… with power to “approve the budget, the selection of adjunct faculty and staff, including the Executive Director and to participate in the faculty hiring decisions.”The Canadian Association of University Teachers was quick to condemn the terms.

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Copyright law a win for consumer, educators, and telecoms as court reins in multiple fees

Saturday, July 14th, 2012

July 12, 2012
Consumers and educators emerged victorious in several significant Supreme Court of Canada rulings that effectively modernize Canadian copyright law. Thursday, the court released its judgments in five different cases that touched on tariffs set by the Copyright Board governing music downloading, photocopying textbooks, videogames and movie and TV soundtracks… while it’s unfair for a teacher to photocopy an entire textbook to avoid buying it, the average teacher copies fewer than 10 pages per student per year, Andrew says. Countries like the United States, Germany and Japan already have similar guidelines in place

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Disastrous… report suggests three-year university degrees and online classes

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

July 01, 2012
I oppose cutting degrees to three years, not just because other provinces and countries won’t accept this, but because fourth year is when you come into your own intellectually… The greatest danger is the report’s warm welcome to online study… You learn from the hard slog of long afternoons spent in classrooms with brilliant people. You learn to read and understand and read further. You learn to evaluate and criticize and think for yourself. You won’t get this fast, alone and on the cheap, but that is precisely what the government is planning…

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Ryerson hosts international conference on Mad Studies

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

May 19 2012
Through their medical faculties, universities conferred “power and legitimacy to enforce imposed practices ranging from lobotomy, ECT insulin-coma shock, excessive drug treatments, discriminatory labels. “Now that some of us are in these elite positions within academia, it is essential to ensure we use this power and privilege to organize, to promote, research, write and engage the public about a topic that has too often in our history been interpreted through the views of medical-model academics.”

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North America is out of touch with ‘Ideas Economy’

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

March 14, 2012
Every increase in value added in Canada will come from the Ideas Economy, and if you’re going to have an educational system that’s suited to that and prepares people, you have to train original thinkers, people who are willing to challenge authority, not follow hierarchy or teach to the test. Memorization, harmonization, standardization; these make an easier job for educational bureaucrats and teachers, but what we need to do is teach our children, and teach ourselves throughout our careers, to keep re-learning how to learn.

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Pass the Books. Hold the Oil.

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

March 10, 2012
To be sure, there is a role for stimulus in a prolonged recession, but “the only sustainable way is to grow our way out by giving more people the knowledge and skills to compete, collaborate and connect in a way that drives our countries forward,” argues Schleicher… “knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.”

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Fraser report raises questions on provincewide testing

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

March 04, 2012
Fraser’s report card ranked elementary schools on the basis of how well students performed on annual standardized reading, writing and math tests. Critics of Fraser’s rankings see them as a “narrow” snapshot of a school’s performance… Thomas argues that “hardships” outside of a school — such as poverty or a community with a large number of single parents — are not necessarily determinants of academic failure or success.

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Larger classrooms among sweeping changes suggested to education

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Feb.15, 2012
The economist advising Queen’s Park on how to wipe out the deficit suggests sweeping changes to the sector on which Premier Dalton McGuinty has staked his reputation, arguing the province has hiked per-pupil spending by 56 per cent in the past 10 years, while enrolment has plunged… He also suggests post-secondary spending grow by no more than 1.5 per cent until 2017.

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